August 2010

The new issue of Organists' Review includes the usual range of articles and celebrates the bi-centenary of Samuel Sebastian Wesley's birth. The cover shows a close-up of the pipes at Gloucester Cathedral.

● This month's issue opens with a commissioned article on S.S.Wesley by Dr Peter Horton, writing about his organ music
● This is followed by a request to Dr Ian Bradley, renowned hymnologist, to write something about S.S.Wesley's lesser-known connection to the church
● The Wesley saga is unfolded by Martin V. Clarke placing S.S.Wesley in a familial context.
● Dr Helen Smith interviews Adrian Partington about his work at Gloucester, a post S.S.Wesley once held
● Coincidentally, the centre-page-spread features the organ in the Music Room at Brighton. This organ also has an S.S.Wesley connection: aged 11, he was one of the 'Children of the Chapel Royal' who sang at its original consecreation in the Royal Chapel, Brighton, in 1822
● John Norman's Soundboard column looks at the design of pistons
● Paul Hale investigates the new Kenneth Tickell installation in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London
● Corinne Hepburn's Organ Forum continues in this issue.
● Stephen Farr writes a personal tribute to David Sanger
● The musical insert is Eric Sweeney's The Secret Rose
● 'Playing recitals is the easy bit -- getting into the UK is something else' by Paul Goodman
● As usual, this issue includes CD/DVD, Music and Book reviews and Local Association News

The November 2010 issue of Organists' Review
sees two major anniversaries: Peter Hurford's 80th birthday and César Franck's centenary of his death. November, as ever, will also include a write-up of this year's IAO Congress and booking forms for the twenty-fifth London Organ Day and 2011 Congress.